ASSOCIATION – Doctoriales 2014 programme
CHERCHEURS EN CHANTIER
Doctorial Day on Vladimir Nabokov
2nd May 2014
at the MISHA (Strasbourg University)
PROGRAM
9:00 Words of Welcome
Presentation of the Exhibition “A Guide to Berlin” by Natalia and Maria Petschatnikov
Part 1: Respondent: Lara Delage-Toriel (Strasbourg University, France)
Keynote address : Stefano Ghislotti (Bergamo, Italy)
“Beyond Lolita: A ‘Reverse’ Analysis of the Film Adaptations of Three Novels by Nabokov: King, Queen, Knave, Despair, The Luzhin Defence”
Part 2: Respondent: Cornelius Crowley (University Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France)
10:00 Doug Battersby (York, United Kingdom)
“Eroticism, Reality and the Mind in Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor”
10:40 Nathalia Saliba Dias (Humboldt – Berlin, Germany)
“Literary Incest or the Meaning of Incest in Vladimir Nabokov’s Work”
11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 Michael Federspiel (Strasbourg, France)
“The Sweet Game of Anaesthesia : A Selection of Nabokov’s Playful Conditioning Strategies in Lolita”
12:20 Chloë Kitzinger (Berkeley, USA)
“ ‘A Variety of Forms’ : Reading Character in Nabokov”
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break (buffet at the MISHA)
Part 3: Respondent: Eric Naiman (Berkeley University, USA)
2:00 Julie Loison-Charles (Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France)
“Nabokov and Russian Formalism”
2:40 Udith Dematagoda (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
“Ideology, Epistemology and the ‘Modernism of Underdevelopment’ in The Eye and Despair”
3:20 Gyöngyi Mikola (Szeged, Hungary)
“ ‘As Water to Ophelia’ : The Problem of Aesthetical Redemption in Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading and The Gift”
4:00-4:20 Coffee Break
Part 4: Respondent: Sophie Bernard-Léger (University Paris IV-Sorbonne, France)
4:20 Katherina Kokinova (Sofia, Bulgaria)
“Training the Reader by Means of Self-Reflection”
5:00 Simon Rowberry (Winchester, United Kingdom)
“Is the History of the Book the Future of Nabokov Studies?”
6:00 Guided Tour of the Exhibition “A Guide to Berlin” by Natalia and Maria Petschatnikov
7:30 Dinner in town
